ドナルド・ジャッドの回顧展が、ニューヨーク近代美術館で開催されます

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ミニマルアートの代表的な作家として知られ建築分野にも大きな影響を与えているドナルド・ジャッドの回顧展が、ニューヨーク近代美術館で開催されます。会期は2020年3月1日〜7月11日です。

“I had always considered my work another activity of some kind,” remarked artist Donald Judd. “I certainly didn’t think I was making sculpture.” One of the foremost sculptors of our time, Judd refused this designation and other attempts to label his art: his revolutionary approach to form, materials, working methods, and display went beyond the set of existing terms in mid-century New York. His work, in turn, changed the language of modern sculpture. Bringing together sculpture, painting, drawing, and rarely seen works from throughout Judd’s career, Judd is the first US retrospective in over 30 years to explore this artist’s remarkable vision.

Judd (1928–1994) began his professional career working as a painter while studying art history and writing art criticism. Among a new generation of artists who sought to move past the breakthroughs of Abstract Expressionism, Judd shifted from two to three dimensions, into what he called “real space,” relinquishing a focus on the artist’s gesture. In his constructed reliefs and wooden floor pieces from this time, he established a new type of object-making that rejected illusion, narrative, and metaphorical content.

By the mid-1960s, Judd commenced his lifelong practice of using industrial materials, such as aluminum, steel, and Plexiglas, and delegating production of his work to local metal shops. With the help of these specialized fabricators, he developed a signature vocabulary of hollow, rectilinear volumes, often arranged in series. In the following years, “boxes,” “stacks,” and “progressions” continued as Judd’s principal framework to introduce different combinations of color and surface. Judd surveys the complete evolution of the artist’s career, culminating in the last decade of his life, when Judd intensified his work with color and continued to lay new ground for what ensuing generations would come to define as sculpture.

Organized by Ann Temkin, The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture, and Yasmil Raymond, Associate Curator, with Tamar Margalit, Curatorial Assistant, and Erica Cooke, Research Fellow, Department of Painting and Sculpture.

具体美術協会の中心メンバーとして知られる「白髪一雄」の展覧会が、東京オペラシティアートギャラリーで開催されます。会期は2020年1月11日～2020年3月22日。2013年にはニューヨークのグッゲンハイム美術館で具体美術協会の企画展が行われたりもしています。

具体美術協会（1954-1972）の中心メンバーとして知られる画家・白髪一雄（1924-2008）。1955年頃より、天井から吊したロープにぶら下がり、床に広げたキャンバスに足で滑走して描く作品の制作により、未知の領域を切り拓きました。白髪の手法は、身体運動（アクション／パフォーマンス）と絵画をダイレクトに結びつけるラディカルさで当時から大きな注目を集めました。協会解散後も先鋭な制作原理を貫いた白髪の作品は、絵具の滴り、滲み、粘性や流動性、堅牢さといった、物質に根ざした油彩画の魅力を存分に湛えており、今日、改めて内外の高い評価を得ています。白髪の探求は、人間の資質をいかに伸ばすかという問題や、宗教的な精神性の問題など、独自の人間学的なアプローチを含んでおり、改めて様々な視点からの検証を待っています。本展は、東京で初の美術館での個展として、白髪一雄の活動を検証するものです。